Three terror attack victims to be cremated in Bhavnagar, Surat today
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Rajkot: Forty-seven-year-old
Yatish Parmar
celebrated his birthday in picturesque Srinagar on April 18 with his 17-year-old son Smit, wife Kajal, and her sister's family. Parmar, a barbering salon owner, was relishing the luxuriant 'mini Switzerland' Baisaran on Tuesday when terrorists rained bullets.
Throughout Tuesday, his anxious father, second son, and other family members made frantic calls to know their situation, but they remained incommunicado. It was on Wednesday that the devastating news of Parmar and Smit's death was broken, plunging entire Bhavnagar city into mourning.
Late in the night, the bodies of the father-son duo reached Ahmedabad on a flight, and their last rites will be performed on Thursday. With two more deaths, the toll of Gujarat tourists climbed to three.
Junior home minister Harsh Sanghavi, Ahmedabad East MP Hasmukh Patel, former minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama and city police commissioner GS Malik paid their lasst respects by garlanding the caskets in which the bodies of Parmar and Smit were brought.
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The mortal remains of banker
Shailesh Kalathiya
also reached his hometown Surat in the night, and his funeral procession will be taken out from his residence in Mora Varachha on Thursday.
The Parmars were part of a 20-member group who went to Kashmir on April 16. Kajal's sister, her husband, and son Sarthak were also among them. Bhavnagar district superintendent of police (SP) Harshad Patel told TOI that Yatish was engaged in the barbering business, while Smit recently completed his Class 11 exams and was preparing to enter Class 12.
"Family members shared that Sarthak was clicking photographs of Smit at the moment the terrorists began indiscriminate firing. Suddenly, gunfire erupted, and Smit was hit by a bullet before anyone could react. He collapsed on the spot. Sarthak managed to duck and hide, narrowly escaping the gunfire," said Patel.
Sarthak is the same age as Smit, and he immediately called the family members back home, informing them about the attack. The group departed on April 16, first travelling to Surendranagar and then boarding the Jammu Tawi Express to reach Katra. They were part of a pilgrimage group attending spiritual leader Morari Bapu's discourse.
Vinod Dabhi, 61, also part of the group, sustained injuries, but he is out of danger. A bullet grazed his arm. Dabhi and 16 others were flown to Mumbai from Srinagar and they are headed to Bhavnagar in a special bus.
Meanwhile, Kalathiya's family members said his father Himmatbhai, who now lives in their native Amreli district, reached Surat. Kalathiya, who worked in the Kandivili branch of the bank in Mumbai, went on a vacation to Kashmir with his wife, son, and daughter.
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